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Andrew Thomas Hunt is a writer, director and producer of genre films. His past work includes Borealis, Todd and the Book of Pure Evil, James Vs. His Future Self, The Hitman Never Dies, Psycho Goreman. His latest film as director is Spare Parts , which follows an all-girl punk band who are kidnapped, fitted with mechanical limbs and forced to fight gladiator style. It is out June 1st. Lynn Roth is...

Frank Spotnitz and Steve Thompson are the creators of a new series about Da Vinci, simply titled Leonardo. Spotnitz has written for shows such as The X-Files, The Man in the High Castle, and Medici. Thompson has collaborated with Steven Moffat on both Doctor Who and Sherlock, and also contributed to Doctors and Jericho. Laura Slade Wiggins is an actress and singer best known for her role as Karen...

Mika Boorem has been acting nearly her whole life. As a child she appeared in Jack Frost, Mighty Joe Young, The Patriot, Hearts in Atlantis, Along Came A Spider, Riding in Cars With Boys, Blue Crush Carolina, Sleepover, and Augusta, Gone as well as the TV series House. Mika talks about working with Hugh Laurie, Anthony Hopkins, filming on Vancouver Island and why so many people still talk to her a...

John Berardo is a filmmaker and horror aficionado from Oklahoma. He has directed a dozen short films, including one as part of the anthology The Labyrinth which starred, among others Josh Peck, Matt Lucas, Beth Grant, Jason Ritter and Flavour Flav. His debut feature is Initiation featuring Isabella Gomez and Gattlin Griffith. It was released May 7th. Subscribe to Endeavours on Spotify, Apple Socia...

TW: Mental Health, Violence, Police Brutality, Racism Margaret Byrne is a documentary filmmaker from Chicago. As a cinematographer she has worked on Making a Murderer and My Next Guest Needs No Introduction With David Letterman. As a director, she has made Raising Bertie - which followed the lives of three African-American boys in South Carolina over six years. Her latest project is Any Given Day,...

Kelly McCormack is an actress, writer, and storyteller. She has appeared in the shows Letterkenny, Killjoys, That's My DJ, The Neddeaus of Duqesne Island as well as the upcoming A League of Their Own reboot. She is the writer and star of the new film Sugar Daddy opposite Colm Feore, which premiered at the Whistler Film Festival in December and was released nationally April 9. John Greyson is one o...

Chris McKim is a documentary filmmaker and producer whose work includes RuPaul's Drag Race, Tori & Dean: Inn Love, Tammy Faye: Death Defying, Freedia Has Got a Gun, and his latest Wojnarowicz - a profile of radical artist and AIDS activist David Wojnarowicz. The film is produced by WOW Docs /World of Wonder's Randy Barbato & Fenton Bailey and available in virtual cinemas through kinomarque...

For the last 20 years, Jo Owens has worked as a care aide. It's the kind of stability that comes after an adventurous life. Jo has spent time in Haida Gwaii, Tuktoyaktuk and Malaysia all before getting her English degree. Now, after spending the last decade-plus writing and tinkering, she is able to release her debut novel A Funny Kind of Paradise to the world. Set in an extended care home and liv...

New New York's hottest club is Kevin?... and one of the hottest child stars of the 90s played Kevin. Thomas Ian Nicholas transitioned into adulthood with the aforementioned role in American Pie and its subsequent sequels, but not before appearing in Rookie Of The Year opposite Daniel Stern and the legend that is Gary Busey, and A Kid in King Arthur's Court, which also featured a pre-Titantic Kate...

Lilka Elbaum was enjoying her life in post-war Poland, when in 1968, at the age of 21, her family was thrown out during the Communist Wave that overtook Eastern Europe. Although she has been able to return to her hometown Lodz many times since, her last visit brought filmmaker Slawomir Grunberg with her adventure to document her memories - in particular a still life painting that hung in her apart...

Jackiem Joyner is a saxophonist, author and music producer who has released seven albums, two novels, and has toured and performed with Marcus Miller, india.arie, Keiko Matusi, Najee, Angela Bofill and countless others. He is the founder of the Joyner Book Club and received Keys to the City of Syracuse from former mayor Stephanie Miner, who also declared August 5, 2010 as Jackiem Joyner Day. Joyne...

Just in time for V-DAY! Peter Vack is an actor who has appeared in Mozart in the Jungle, Homeland, Brittany Runs a Marathon, Slash, and After Everything. He chats about his new film PVT Chat, in which he plays an online Gambler obsessed with a Cam Girl. The film was released on VOD and digital on February 9th. Ana Valens is an NSFW reporter for The Daily Dot specializing in online fetishism and qu...

Legendary folk singer Melanie Safka (aka Melanie) talks performing at Woodstock, Isle of Wight, Glastonbury, Strawberry Fields, and the infamous Powder Ridge Rock Festival. She spills details on performing with the Edwin Hawkins Singers, Ruby Tuesday, and how her song Brand New Key, once banned on commercial radio, ended up in the soundtrack to Boogie Nights. she also her talks her Emmy win for Be...

Actor Han Soto talks about his role in season 3 of Cobra Kai, as well his appearances in Preacher, Logan, and Fantastic Four; working with Hugh Jackman, Dafne Keen and Jill Hennessy, his foray into producing, introduction to fan culture, and how he feels about portrayals of Asians in cinema. Season 3 of Cobra Kai is now available on Netflix. Subscribe to Endeavours Radio wherever you get your Podc...

Renaissance woman Nomi Ruiz stops by to chat about Jessica 6, her solo music, essay writing, trans advocacy, Puerto Rico, her Nuyorican identity, intersectional politics, labels, and her role in the new film Haymaker , in which she also acts as producer, Production Coordinator and Unit Production Manager. Subscribe to Endeavours on Apple, Spotify, Deezer Social @EndeavoursRadio

Silke Sollfrank is a parkour athlete with Team Ashigaru in Berlin. She talks about making the switch from gymnastics to parkour,  the Olympics, performing for Tom Cruise, stunt work, being hired for a Star Wars project (despite never having seen a film), parkour playgrounds, conservation, and her favourite Disney film. Subscribe to Endeavours on Apple. Social @EndeavoursRadio

Larry Campbell is one of Americana’s most well-regarded multi-instrumentalists and producers. He's toured and recorded with Bob Dylan, Paul Simon, Willie Nelson, and Hot Tuna. Larry (as Levon Helm’s music director for eight years) along with Teresa Williams, collaborated with Levon Helm on three GRAMMY® Award-winning albums. Steeped in traditional gospel and years of performing in musical the...

Mark Moskowitz is documentary filmmaker and producer known for his "issue-oriented" media. He was a "pollie" - political media's highest award for five consecutive years. In 2002 he released his first feature-length documentary Stone Reader.  He has a new 10 part series It Was The Music which focuses on the lives and careers of Americana music power couple Larry Campbell and Teresa Williams....

Jerry Rothwell is an award-winning documentary filmmaker whose previous works include Deep Water, Donor Unknown, How To Change The World, Sour Grapes, and his latest - The Reason I Jump , an adaptation of the book of the same name written by Naoki Higashida and translated by David Mitchell. Expanding on the source material's premise, it tells the story of five neurodiverse, non-speaking autistics...

Sam Harris has been singing through life since winning Star Search in 1983. He has gone on to appear in dozens of broadway musicals, made nine platinum-selling records, created a sitcom and has authored two books, one fiction and one non-fiction. His latest film HAM: A Musical Memoir , a filmed version of his award-winning one man show, is available on Laemmle and on Broadway HD starting January 7...

Remy Girard is one of Canada's acclaimed actors having appeared in such projects as The Barbarian Invasions, Incendies, Jesus of Montreal, Les Boys, Blades of Glory and The Red Violin. He has received more Genie Awards than any actor in Canadian history and is an icon of French-Canadian cinema. His new film is Tu Te Souviendras De Moi/You Will Remember Me. It recently premiered at the Whistler Fil...

Kathy Valentine is best known for being bass player in the Go-Go's, the first all-female band to go #1. She has also authored a new memoir All I Ever Wanted, which was released in March. Suzie Leblanc is a soprano, early music specialist and member of the Order of Canada. She was recently named the Artistic Director of Early Music Vancouver, a post she begins on January 4th. Subscribe to Endeavour...

Julia Sarah Stone is an actress who has become a darling of the festival circuit in Canada. After getting her breakthrough with The Year Dolly Parton Was My Mom, she followed that up with a role on AMC's The Killing. Since then she has dazzled in countless indie films and has two featured at the Whistler Film Festival, Marlene - which looks at the famous Steven Truscott case from the point of view...

Sophie Dupuis is a French-Canadian filmmaker whose debut feature Une Chien de Garde was Canada's submission for Foreign Language Film at the 91st Academy Awards, as well as being nominated for eight Prix Iris awards. She has followed that up, with Souterrain, a film about a mine explosion in small town Quebec, that was filmed in Sophie's hometown of Val D'or. It recently had its Anglo-Canadian deb...

Another interview from the 2020 Whistler Film Festival. Niels Mueller is a writer and director, whose first screenplay - tadpole - starred Sigourney Weaver and Aaron Stanford. His first outfit as director - Assassination of Richard Nixon - starred Sean Penn, Naomi Watts and Don Cheadle. For his most recent work, he has gone smaller and back to his midwestern roots, Wisconsin to be specific. Small...